What's new from Grafana Labs

This brand new feature, coming to Public Preview in Grafana v12, is designed to streamline how you approach problem-solving by bringing all your relevant signals together in one unified view.

Last October at ObsCon, we announced the GA of Logs Drilldown, and we’ve been hard at work expanding its capabilities to help you visualize your logs data with more flexibility and options.

At ObsCon last October, we announced the GA of Metrics Drilldown, and we’ve been hard at work expanding its capabilities to help you reduce the number of metrics you need to manage with just a few clicks.

Effective starting in Grafana 12.0, the configuration option editors_can_admin is removed. 

The editors_can_admin setting in Grafana allows users with the Editor role to create and manage Grafana Teams.  Editors in instances with this configuration setting no longer have these extra privileges.

Troubleshooting with traces just got a lot faster in Grafana Cloud. Trace correlations lets you configure custom, context-aware links straight into every span in the trace view. With a single click, you can now jump from a trace to:

We are excited to announce the public preview of native histograms!

Native histograms are a metric type in Prometheus that can produce, store, and query high-resolution histograms of observations. They usually offer higher resolution and more straightforward instrumentation than classic histograms.

We’re excited to announce that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.

k6 browser checks allow you to go beyond traditional monitoring, enabling you to test and validate real user flows and gain insight into performance in ways you can’t with HTTP-level checks. With browser checks, you’re not just monitoring performance at a protocol level; you’re simulating user interactions that provide you with a much richer view of your app’s behavior in production.

You can define custom labels at the scrape job level across all services in a job, making it easier to:

• Attribute costs
• Track ownership
• Apply consistent metadata

Especially valuable for teams without direct access to AWS tagging, this feature:

You can now configure logs queries per-service and override the global configuration for services in Application Observability.

This feature allows you to change how service details query logs and facilitate traces to logs, providing the flexibility to mix and match signals across databases and datasources.

We keep making it easier to manage incidents from anywhere — no laptop needed!

With this latest update, you can now dive into the full incident timeline directly from your phone. Instantly catch up on everything that’s happened: comments, notes, attachments, and key activity — all organised chronologically.

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) release of Grafana Traces Drilldown, bringing a simplified, queryless experience to distributed tracing analysis. Building on months of public preview feedback and lessons learned from the Drilldown suite, this GA release delivers a refined, integrated solution for deep-dive trace analysis.

Pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management can now inject variable collector attribute values into their configurations. This powerful new feature enables you to create dynamic configurations that adapt to each collector’s characteristics, reducing the need for multiple similar pipelines.

We’ve made several updates to the IRM settings to give administrators greater visibility and control:

• Renamed the Organization settings to Admin & API.
• Added Admin-level setting to enable or disable the availability of notification channels (such as Slack or MS Teams) across all user profiles.
• Deprecated OnCall API tokens in favor of Grafana Cloud service accounts. Existing OnCall API tokens can still be used, viewed, and deleted, but new tokens can no longer be generated.

We’ve made it easier to understand ownership and take action immediately when a service looks off. The latest update to Grafana Service Center brings IRM (incident response management) context directly into the service details view. You can now quickly see who’s on-call and escalate issues without leaving Service Center.

Grafana’s dashboard schema has stayed mostly the same for years, originally built around a single grid layout. Over time, it became more complex and harder to work with, mixing different concerns and adding unnecessary complications. In Grafana v12, we’re introducing a new dashboard schema.